BIOS updates for Meltdown / Spectre

Acer

HP Workstations

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05869091

HP Servers

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00039267en_us

Dell

NVIDIA

Lenovo

Microsoft

More here

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/list-of-links-bios-updates-for-the-meltdown-and-spectre-patches/

OS Updates

 MS  operating systems

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/how-to-check-and-update-windows-systems-for-the-meltdown-and-spectre-cpu-flaws/

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/09/understanding-the-performance-impact-of-spectre-and-meltdown-mitigations-on-windows-systems/

 

VMWare advisory

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0002.html

SCCM Compliance Settings

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/configmgr_geek_speak/2018/01/09/configmgr-speculation-control-ba…

Performance Hit

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/heres-how-and-why-the-spectre-and-meltdown-patches-will-hurt-performance/

Also further reading

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/configurationmgr/2018/01/08/additional-guidance-to-mitigate-spec…